Miura, the original supercar

MAN, I love that car...

Joe, I have to level with you - between this and 4870, I've never really understood how you part with these cars.... Of course you've had many Lambo's and I none, so maybe there's a paradigm problem on my part...

 

I have wondered the same thing. I have never sold a car because I get too attached and the 5000S that I have for sale is the first I have ever let go. Joe, you have had so many great cars...it has to be very hard to let some of them go.

Brian

 

One of the biggest mistake from Lamborghini was to bring the BRAVO in the roads!! What a car (still today!)!!!!!

Ciao!
Walter

 

Those days Leimer took a lot of these one offs and drove them to Switzerland. The Bravo ended up tired at Lambo Motors in Aesch (Ch) when it was metallic green, the car seems to be sold then back tom Bertone, also on the Cheetah I have a picture showing it with swiss plates.

Leimer took a lot of cars "Home" and sold them, I don't think the factory saw afterwards the money from him...

 

Yes... The BRAVO... What a car... And only one on earth!!! And the CARABO... Marcello Gandini was the greatest!!!

 

OK, but the BRAVO with its "cubistic-style-meets-70ies-look" was more radical in those days than the CARABO at its time. For me the BRAVO is iconic!

Ciao!
Walter

 

they are both car design masterpieces IMO
as the miura-countach-stratos-ecc.... these years Bertone made better car's design than the guys at Farina

 

Same angle, but in Bertone's garden...
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Can`t agree more! Don`t know how old you guys are - but when my father showed up with his almost new Miura SV in 1972 (he bought it used with less than 6,000 km on the clock) me and my friends could NOT keep our mouth shut! It was at that time like if you see a CONCORDE driving up your private road!
And the most stunning is: when you see scetches of the Miura and the Countach you see that each idea was almost exactly transfered into reality (even in those days that was very rare!)! This way of design work is long gone today!

Ciao!
Walter

 

spendid photo, thank you!

Philippe
www.lamborghinimiura.com

 

Sorry Joe, I don't understand. An SVJ "replica"? Do you have the number of this one?

Philippe
www.lamborghinimiura.com

 

Indeed!

 

+1

 

I suffer from the sentimentality of Brian, and perhaps this is why I say a paradigm shift is necessary if I am to own a Miura... I have a Datsun 240z that I've owned since highschool and has been in various states of restoration since. A smart person would long ago have buried the rust that the chassis became, but I promised myself I'd drive it again, so I will. I completely understand the perfectionism and discovering "new" cars, so your cars makes sense. It seems our passions don't always make sense though (at least in my case)....

Regardless Joe, congrats on some beautiful cars! Oh yeah, and keep the pics coming.... please...... Still waiting for the book..... ....... perfectionists!!!!

PS perfectionist ????

 

so if we believe Zampolli (and he should know the truth) there were roughly 10 factory SVJ's then.
how many do you have chassis numbers on ?

im guessing the "slow death" car is not a factory one - LOL